In 1864, in the first battle of Atlanta, Confederate troops under Gen. John Hood were defeated by Union forces under Gen. William Sherman.

In 1916, a bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded during a Preparedness Day parade on San Francisco's Market Street, killing 10 people and wounding 40. The parade was in support of the United States' entrance into World War I.

In 1933, Wiley Post completed his first solo flight around the world. It took him 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger died in a hail of bullets from federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

In 1991, Milwaukee police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer as a suspect in the deaths of at least 15 people.

In 1992, Pablo Escobar, the boss of the Medellin cocaine cartel, and nine henchmen vanished from a Colombian prison. Many months later, Escobar was surrounded and killed.

In 1994, a U.S. federal judge ordered The Citadel, a state-financed military college in Charleston, S.C., to open its doors to women.

In 2003, Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusai, were killed by U.S. forces in a 6-hour firefight at a house in Mosul in northern Iraq.

In 2004, the Sept. 11 Commission recommended a radical overhaul of the way the nation's intelligence and counter-terror agencies were run and criticized Congress and two administrations for failing to stop the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

In 2006, Afghanistan was "close to anarchy" with Western military forces "running out of time," the head of NATO's international security force in that country said.

In 2008, jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were indicted on charges of child sexual assault by a grand jury in Texas.

In 2009, millions of Hindus bathed in India's holy rivers and throngs across Asia sought vantage points to view a rare 4-minute total solar eclipse, longest of the 21st century.

In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, a 33-year-old Norwegian right-wing extremist, boasted he was responsible for the massacre of 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity. However, he denied criminal guilt at his Oslo trial, saying he was trying to stop a Muslim takeover. Breivik admitted killing 69 people, mostly teenagers, in a shooting rampage at a youth summer camp and setting a bomb that killed eight others in Oslo.

In 2012, Chinese police, reporting on a crackdown against economic crimes, said they arrested 463 people on counterfeiting charges and seized $18.5 million in fake bills.

A thought for the day: Mordecai Richler wrote: "The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself."